A Dear Little Girl is a children's novel by Amy Ella Blanchard , published in 1909. Amy Ella Blanchard (June 28, 1854 – July 4, 1926) was a prolific American writer of children's literature. Amy Ella Blanchard was at first a teacher of art in the Woman's College in Baltimore, now Goucher College. She taught school while studying art. She then taught drawing and painting for two years in Plainfield, New Jersey.